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Joseph Klafter
Joseph Klafter (יוסף קלפטר), known as Yossi Klafter, is an Israeli chemical physicist who introduced Lévy walks and served as Tel Aviv University's president from 2009 to 2019.
Joseph Kruskal
Joseph Bernard Kruskal, Jr. (1928–2010) was an American mathematician and statistician at Bell Laboratories who created Kruskal's algorithm and gave nonmetric multidimensional scaling its modern form.
Joseph L. Taylor
Joseph L. Taylor (Joseph Lawrence Taylor, 1941–2016) was an American mathematician at the University of Utah known for work on Banach algebras and noncommutative harmonic analysis.
Joseph Larmor
Joseph Larmor (1857–1942) was an Irish mathematical physicist at Cambridge, Lucasian Professor from 1903 to 1932, who first calculated the radiation of an accelerated electron and explained the magnetic splitting of spectrum lines.
Joseph Lawson Hodges, Jr.
Joseph Lawson Hodges, Jr. (1922–2000) was an American mathematical statistician at Berkeley, a student of Jerzy Neyman, known for the Hodges estimator and the Hodges–Lehmann estimator.
Joseph LeConte
Joseph LeConte (1823–1901) was an American geologist, chemist, and educator, the first professor of geology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a founding Sierra Club member.
Joseph Leo Doob
Joseph Leo Doob (1910–2004) was an American mathematician at the University of Illinois, best known for developing martingales systematically and, alongside Kolmogorov, giving probability theory its modern mathematical foundation.
Joseph Leonard Walsh
Joseph Leonard Walsh (1895–1973) was an American mathematician at Harvard known for the Walsh functions, later central to digital signal processing, and for approximation theory.
Joseph Leonide Gerver
Joseph Leonide Gerver is a mathematician at Rutgers University, best known for the Gerver sofa, the shape of area 2.2195 he proposed in 1992 for the moving sofa problem.
Joseph Liberman
Joseph Liberman (Иосиф Меерович Либерман) was a Soviet Leningrad mathematician who worked on convex surfaces, earned his candidate degree, and died in 1941; Perelman and Petrunin's paper names the generalized Liberman theorem.
Joseph Lovering
Joseph Lovering was an American mathematician and natural philosopher, Hollis Professor at Harvard from 1838 to 1888, known for his work on terrestrial magnetism and the aurora borealis.
Joseph M. DeSimone
Joseph M. DeSimone (born 1964) is an American chemist and chemical engineer known for PRINT particle fabrication and CLIP 3D printing, and a Stanford professor since 2020.
Joseph M. Fox
Joseph M. Fox, also known as Joseph Fox, is an American chemist at the University of Delaware known for developing the tetrazine ligation, the fastest bioorthogonal reaction.
Joseph M. Prospero
Joseph M. Prospero is an American atmospheric scientist at the University of Miami known as the "father of dust" for pioneering the study of Saharan dust transport across the Atlantic.
Joseph M. Ready
Joseph M. Ready is an American organic chemist and Professor of Biochemistry at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, known for natural products synthesis and iridium-catalyzed allylation reactions.
Joseph Needham
Joseph Needham (1900–1995) was a British biochemist and historian of science at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, known for Science and Civilisation in China and the Needham Question.
Joseph O. Hirschfelder
Joseph O. Hirschfelder (1911–1990) was an American theoretical chemist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who worked on the Manhattan Project and won the 1975 National Medal of Science.
Joseph P. Colgan
Joseph P. Colgan is an American research geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Denver who studies Cenozoic tectonics and volcanism in the western United States.
Joseph P. Heremans
Joseph P. Heremans (1953–2025) was a Belgian-born condensed matter experimental physicist at Ohio State known for thermoelectrics and spin caloritronics, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2013.
Joseph P. Iddings
Joseph P. Iddings (1857–1920) was an American petrologist who worked for the U.S. Geological Survey, deciphered Yellowstone's igneous geology, and co-created the C.I.P.W. classification of igneous rocks.
Joseph P. LaSalle
Joseph P. LaSalle was a mathematician known for LaSalle's invariance principle, a 1960 stability result for dynamical systems; he later directed the Center for Dynamical Systems at Brown University.
Joseph Pedlosky
Joseph Pedlosky is an American physical oceanographer at Woods Hole, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1985 and author of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics.
Joseph Pérès
Joseph Pérès (1890–1962) was a French mathematician and mechanician, professor of mechanics at Marseille and Paris and dean of the Faculty of Science of Paris.
Joseph Polchinski
Joseph Polchinski (1954–2018) was an American theoretical physicist at UC Santa Barbara known for discovering D-branes, his two-volume textbook String Theory, and the 2012 black hole firewall argument.
Joseph Ritt
Joseph Fels Ritt (1893–1951) was an American mathematician at Columbia University who created differential algebra, the algebraic theory of ordinary and partial differential equations, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1933.
Joseph Rotblat
Joseph Rotblat (Józef Rotblat, 1908–2005) was a Polish-born British physicist who left the Manhattan Project in 1944 and shared the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize with Pugwash.
Joseph Rudnick
Joseph Rudnick is a statistical physicist, UCLA professor emeritus and former Dean of Physical Sciences, known for the Rudnick–Gaspari asphericity and Rudnick–Hu winding-angle results and the textbook Elements of the Random Walk.
Joseph Saxton
Joseph Saxton (1799–1873) was an American inventor and metrologist who built the magneto-electric machine in London in 1832, took the oldest extant American photograph in 1839, and led the U.S. Office of Weights and Measures.
Joseph Silk
Joseph Silk, born 1942 in London, is a British and US cosmologist known for Silk damping, cosmic microwave background anisotropy theory, and the physics of galaxy formation.
Joseph Smagorinsky
Joseph Smagorinsky (1924–2005) was an American meteorologist who founded and directed NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory from 1955 to 1983, pioneering computer modeling of weather and climate.